SURPRISE FARM RETREAT CENTER
An Afternoon Journey at Surprise Farm Retreat Center
Sunday, Aug 25, 4 - 7PM
This free experiential journey, limited to 20 people, provides a sensory engagement with the natural and unique elements that Surprise Farm Retreat Center offers.
A tour of the land focuses on its geography and heritage, from indigenous roots to current organic farming. We will gain a sense of place by using more than our five senses: We'll listen to the birds and the trees; we taste what is growing on the farm; we smell sages and buckwheat; and feel the ground with bare feet. We watch how colors change in the afternoon light; we sense the changing temperature on our skin.
We explore and experience place in a private time-out-of-time. We'll return to the circle to share our transformations and the various ways that nature heals.
Surprise Farm Retreat Center offers a place in nature to renew and reconnect. With experiential education, workshops, camping, and hands-on farming, we seek to co-create an environment and community in support of a caring and sustainable world. Engaged with our place in history, relating to the non-human, we can re-wild our creativity.
“If we speak about a healthy community, we . . are talking about a neighborhood of humans in place, plus the place itself: it’s soil, its water, its air, and all the families and tribes of the nonhuman creatures that belong to it."
- Wendell Berry
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE,
4:-4:30pm Introductions of participants and the land
4:30-5:15pm Tour of SurpriseFarm and Retreat Center.
5:15-6:00pm Introductions of Self to Nature
6:00-6:45pm Creativity Project
7:00pm Fire-Pit